Disrupting Stories and Images of Church

Honoring Voices with Lived Experience of Disability

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Disrupting Stories and Images of Church

Honoring Voices with Lived Experience of Disability

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Description

This book provides theological reflection on the image of the church as informed by the lived experiences of people who provide care for children with disabilities. These voices from the margin provide insight into what the church can do and has failed to do. A generative image of the church emerges as theologians engaged in disability studies work with the theme and images emerging from this data.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements
Introduction –
Section One: Themes in Healing the Church with Disabilities
Chapter One: Beyond Saints and Superheroes: A Phenomenological Study of the Spiritual Care Needs of Parents Raising Children with Disabilities
Chapter Two: A Place to Belong –
Chapter Three: Cripping Space in the Sacraments –
Chapter Four:Beyond Transactional Ministry: Praying and Advocating with Jesus toward Justice–
Chapter Five:A Lens of Unproductivity: A Theological Hermeneutic for Disability Justice –
Chapter Six:Three Mothers, Three Stories: Spiritual Abuse, Theodicies, Disability, and Parenting: –
Chapter Seven: The Disabled and Eschatological Church –

Section Two: Disabling Images of the Church
Chapter Eight: The Church as Kin (Cruise) Ship–
Chapter Nine:Radical Re-Visioning Through Mad Studies: Advancing Mad-Justice in Faith Communities –
Chapter Ten: Negotiating Disclosure: To Mask or Not to Mask? –
Chapter Eleven:The Exclusionary Circle: Analysis and Response –
Chapter Twelve: The Church as a Rooted Tree, Or: Stayed on Jesus! A Partially-Preached Sermon –
Chapter Thirteen:Days of Fullness: Warm Bread as a Metaphor for Churches that Include People with Developmental Disabilities –

Section Three: Interreligious Insights for Disability Theology
Chapter Fourteen: The Intersections of Faith, Culture and Disability: A Muslim-Canadian Perspective –
Chapter Fifteen: Moments of Spirit: Access and Inclusion in Jewish Living –
Chapter Sixteen: Navigating the Two Buddhist Perspectives on Disability –
Chapter Seventeen: A Sacred Bond: Indigenous Reflections on Disability, Love, and the Church –
Chapter Eighteen: The Sacred Body: Exploring the Theologies of Difference in Islam –

Product details

Published Dec 11 2025
Format Hardback
Edition 1st
Extent 304
ISBN 9781666973013
Imprint T&T Clark
Dimensions 229 x 152 mm
Series Emerging Perspectives in Pastoral Theology and Care
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing

About the contributors

Anthology Editor

Allen G. Jorgenson

Allen G. Jorgenson is assistant Dean and professor…

Anthology Editor

Laura MacGregor

Laura MacGregor is an independent scholar.

Anthology Editor

Thomas E. Reynolds

Thomas E. Reynolds is associate professor of theol…

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